ALBANY — A Brooklyn woman who helped swindle $548,381 from Price Chopper supermarkets in New York and New England using gift cards purchased with counterfeit credit cards admitted to federal identity theft charges Wednesday.

Jamese L. Williams, 29, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit access device fraud, access device fraud, and aggravated identity theft during an appearance before Judge Mae D'Agostino in U.S. District Court in Albany.

In a plea deal with federal prosecutors, Williams admitted that between October 2012 through January 2013, she and other crooks used "hundreds of counterfeit credit cards bearing stolen account numbers to purchase gift cards at Price Chopper grocery stores throughout New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut," U.S. Attorney Richard Hartunian's office said.